Pathetic...Unreasonable...B-Grade...Flawed...Creaky...Sordid...Exaggerated...Confusing and a BIGGGG PAIN!! This is how ‘Love Games’ starring Patralekha, Tara Alisha Berry and Gaurav Arora, which released today, can be completely described. After a long time, Vikram Bhatt has come up with a movie but we are sorry to say that it is the biggest debacle of the Bhatt Camp! Undoubtedly, the director tried to bring in a complete new concept of reality, but the output of his intentions has been executed in such a way, that you won’t like to remember the two hours you spent in the movie ever again!!! Even if you have free time, I would suggest that DO NOT waste time in watching this!!
Director Vikram Bhatt’s film features the interiors of Mumbai penthouses where middle class morals are unheard of. They abuse spouses in public, pour drink over each other in parties and go in with their lives, without feeling any remorse. It’s a sure shot box office formula the Bhatt camp is exploring since 15 years. Love Games introduces us to cocaine snorting and friends with benefits within minute before providing a peep into the lonely lives of its protagonists, but then it becomes murkier. Ramona’s obsession takes the center-stage and Sam gets pushed to play a victim, but the film loses the shock value in the process. It’s not something we haven’t witnessed before. Once the surprise factor dies down, we’re left with only fast paced action, but disappointment greets us right there because Love Games is a lift-up from many similar films. Words hold no meaning after a while. Vikram Bhatt is just juggling with the idea of cheap thrills without actually putting anything substantial on offer. So, it won’t make any difference if you call Love Games, Hate Story 4. To cut the chase short: Roses are red, violets are blue…Hey Vikram Bhatt, what did you do?
Vikram Bhatt's Love Games movie plot relies solely on random devices to create tension between three individuals grappling with their inner demons and outer desires. The outright puerile meets the unabashedly sleazy in Love Games, an adult thriller about people with fast cars and faster lives that has neither pace nor tolerably interesting characters. As for the acting, the less said the better. The obviously promising Patralekhaa, saddled with a dodgy accent, tries far too hard to do justice to the role of the amoral femme fatale. The effort shows.Tara Alisha Berry is pretty much in the same boat. No matter what she does, there can be no rising above this insipid screenplay. Debutant Gaurav Arora, despite reasonable screen presence, makes a complete hash of trying to balance the boyish with the bad-ass. Love Games is a Vishesh Films offering. So it does not lack surface gloss. But it simply isn't enough to hide its lack of depth. Best avoided.
Love Games is a erotic thriller and stays true to its genre. In a nutshell, Love Games is about love, lust, drugs and revenge. The first half of the film is all about love games, sexual boredom and intimate scenes. The story takes off in the second half but it misses the mark because of its predictable story, cliched dialogues and all-too-easy screenplay. Overall, the film tries to offer something new and it does to an extent. But if you have watched Cruel Intentions, Love Games will not appeal to you. Watch Love Games only if you have nothing to do this weekend.
The five things you can learn from ‘Love Games’, Vikram Bhatt’s new film, are as follow: Bollywood flicks are now all grown up and all, featuring femme fatales and f*** buddies, and threesomes. Wo, Bolly Love is no longer pure, Bolly mums are no longer the best, Bolly beds are busy, Bolly plots are bust. The Bhatts’ long-standing promise of giving us fully adult men and women bursting with carnal desires and twisted motives used to be backed by storylines. This one gives up quickly. All sorts of things crop up—blood, bodies, guns, murder, and dollops of confusion wrapped in eye-popping improbability. Missing the point you are? Bunging in a kiss we are. Uh oh. Conclusion? Some of the smooching looks professional, about the only thing that does. As for the rest, bye bye, two hours, which will never come back.
"Roses are red, violets are blue...Sex can be messy, love can be too..." On this note, begins this amateurish film. Vikram Bhatt's Love Games tries to be a tempestuous tale about temptations. But his bright concept is far from being well-fleshed out. There were a bunch of interesting ideas which never intertwine with the narrative. A story about carnal exploration cannot rely just on dialogues like 'I have missed your lips'. On paper, it would've been a crackling story about lustful femme fatale obsessed with her boy toy, unwilling to part with him even when love comes calling. But when you see, an annoyingly screechy Patralekha shriek her lungs out, shooting her lover, you are as baffled as the expressionless Gaurav. While her co-actors overdo their job, Tara suffers the brunt of a badly written character. Who knows, what she could've done. The oohs and aahs are limited to the pain of watching the film. This one is an opportunity lost. Even the brightest of ideas go in vain because of bad execution. Love Games is a classic example of it.